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They said Italy would be a more civilized country if it gives rights to unmarried and gay couples.

Until recently, Florida was one of a handful of states that expressly prohibited adoption by gay couples.

They said Italy would be a more civilized country if it gave rights to unmarried and gay couples.

Allowing gay couples to adopt from foster care, where health care and college is paid for, opens it up to more people, experts say.

Gay couples will not preserve their own genes but they may help preserve those of the group to which they belong.

Plans to legalise same-sex marriage and allow gay couples to adopt are to be discussed at a meeting of the French Socialist government.

So even where gay couples enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage under state law, they do not enjoy equality under federal law.

Congregations would be able to recognise lifelong gay couples.

Today was the first day gay couples were allowed to legally marry in New York state.

Mr Gates reckons the bulk of the increase is because as tolerance spreads, more gay couples are willing to be counted.

He shares President Barack Obama's positions on civil unions for gay couples and a comprehensive approach to immigration issues.

But the court decided that the thousands of gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect can stay wed.

Gay couples say that being denied the right to marry makes them feel like second-class citizens.

All government benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy should also be granted to gay couples.

Gay couples quickly lined up to marry in California.

They suggest that pay discrepancies also emerge when looking at gay couples in groups of age, education, race and religion.

Jack up the incomes and financial stability, though, and more mental space is freed to fret over terrorism, orange alerts, and gay couples.

Still, the ugly retorts predictably arrived -- even from Canada, where loving gay couples have been allowed nationwide to marry since 2005.

In gay couples, there's a sense of 'We're angry, but isn't this funny? '

Authorities should also consider gay couples' rights and obligations to support the elderly and adopt children.

Jason Carson said now gay couples will have the same choices and protections afforded straight couples.

For many gay couples, the possibility of marriage, even while delayed, seemed tantalizingly close.

The move effectively cleared the way for local authorities to begin issuing marriage licences to gay couples.

Kucinich said yes; Dodd and Edwards said no but that they support civil unions for gay couples.

Paperwork is in train for the first adoptions by gay couples.

Over the next five months, some 18, 000 gay couples wed.

In the 2000 census, gay couples who ticked the box "married" were reclassified as unmarried partners.

In 1990, 92% of gay couples but only 77% of American households were in what the Census Bureau calls "urban clusters" .

More than 120 gay couples have received marriage licences in the US capital, Washington DC.

Gay couples are still more likely than straight ones to live in cities, but the gap is smaller than popularly believed, and closing.

About 20, 000 gay couples had exchanged vows before Prop 8 passed, backed by a coalition that included Mormon and Catholic opponents.

Indeed, of the 34 states with above-average increases in the number of gay couples, 21 voted for Mr Bush in 2004.

Of 600, 000 gay couples identified in the last census, 28% were raising children against 46% for married couples.

They also say they will push lawmakers to allow gay couples to marry.

Same-sex marriage (2003) Marriage of gay couples.

For example, a report on gay marriage may convey the message that gay couples are ordinary people and parents.

The decision could open the courts to thousands of challenges from gay couples from the handful of states where gay marriage is legal.

Domestic violence can affect gay couples, too. You may be experiencing domestic violence if you're in a same-sex relationship with a man who

This seemed odd, given that Anglican adoption agencies do cater to gay couples;

Tying the knot Where America's gay couples enjoy legal equality